Re: [amsat-bb] RS-13 in mode T or KT?

[k6yk@xxxxxxxx]

Mode KT works pretty good.  As with the VHF uplinks, you don't need to 
have much power or antenna.  It is affected by the propagation on 15
meters
though.  It works best for satellite at night when 15 is not open.  Sort
of like the 
10 meter downlink.  You also have the chance to maybe  extend the range
of 
the bird with a little "over the horizon" .  If you were lucky enough to
be on when 
10 and 15 are both open, get a little "skip" on the uplink and downlink
both, 
you could work quite a bit out of the normal range.  I hear lots of DX
stations 
on RS13, but they are QSO'ing on 15 meters not knowing that they are
getting
into the bird.

73,
John, K6YK
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On 03 Nov 00 21:33:23 +1000 tlang@freeway.apana.org.au (Tony Langdon)
writes:
> 
> Hello Grant!
> 
> 02 Nov 00 23:09, you wrote to Randolph Kohlwey:
> 
>  GZ> I hope it has switched to mode KT.  I enjoyed KT on RS-12 very 
> much
>  GZ> and made a LOT of contacts.  Use a Quadrifilar Helix on 2 
> meters to
>  GZ> receive and your (barefoot) HF rig and HF beam for 15 meter 
> uplink.  A
>  GZ> good mode for HF operators.
> 
> Sounds like an interesting mode, I've never worked an HF uplink.
> 
> Tony, VK3JED
> 
> .. lass.
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